In reading peoples discussions of how easy it is, and how you can just download this or that program and do it.... I have been convinced that doing your own website may be easy, but you have to actually want to do it. I actually don't want to do it, so I will be working with a professional to put the site together. This will hopefully take the pressure off myself and my bandmate to improve the site. I am hoping this also allows me to cut down on the number of promotional packets that I produce.

It has been very useful to look at all of your sites, so here is our current one: geocities.com/rthfiddle   I don't know how to make that a link. Our new site will be roundthehouse.com

Here are some of the things I am trying to change in our new site. Are there any other things that you have found especially useful on your site, that I might add to ours?

I hope to make the new site less about advertisement and more about information, so that the reader gets ideas about all the things we can do to make their event interesting and memorable.

I also want people that hire us to be able to get useable promotional photos, see our stage plot, and hear our music.

I want to make ordering cds easier.

I want to provide links to agencies that can give grant funding so that people can hire us at the fee we would like to become accustomed to.

I want to give information about workshops we can teach and the types of groups we can teach to.

I want to give rough ideas about our experience, sort of like a friendly vita as part of the bios.

I want to get across that we are actually a fun and flexible band (how the heck do you do that anyway?)

Gotta go,

Claire